Fall Decor and tons of Birthdays!

Well it is officially fall at the Avey house!! Not that I have much to decorate with yet but hey. its getting there! LOL! I love love love fall and just love to watch the leaves on the trees change and the nice cool days....although ours have mostly been cold and rainy so far! Below i have posted some pictures of the decorations I do have up though!


This is the outdoor decorating I did this year! Just some haybales, cornstalks, mums, and pumpkins from the best pumkin patch around...Dickey Farms!



Another pic a little further away

The bowl on my dining room table (Gail Pittman from Southern Living--which is my favorite if you didn't know) and the decorative mix I have put in it for the season!

My antique buffet in the dining room with my fall decorations...obviously I am not finished filling in the holes! LOL! And there is also a wedding gift sitting next to it to take back! HAHA!

Another pic closer up...one of my favorite things I own is that gold bling sign! I bought that in like 9th grade at Kirklands for $7.00! Such a bargain shopper!

And of course...can't have fall without this wonderful fall mix! Candy corn and peanuts! YUM!

Me and my girl LG!

My mom turned 40 yesterday and I would say that she had a pretty good 40th birthday!! First off, everyone under the sun called her and sang happy birthday to her. Me, My aunt Dar, Aunt Nita, cousin MiKael, cousin Kyle and my cousin Lily Grace then took her out to lunch at her favorite...McAlisters! After McAlisters, MiKael brought her up a huge cookie cake to work and my aunts sent her beautiful boquets of flowers! Not to mention, her boss and his daughters decorated her office and had the WHOLE building come sing happy birthday to her and eat a WONDERFUL Rick's cake! What a great birthday she had! This Friday night we are taking her to dinner and then my Dad is taking her on a date to the Walton Arts Center to see the Riverdance...something she has always wanted to do! Love you mom!

Mom's new cane....equiped with an extra set of pantyhose, a horn, old man repelent and a magnifying glass!! HAHA!

Mom with her walker! She sooooo does not look 40!!

Close up of her walker

Mom and Dad's front porch

The front yard....they did a great job decorating! Thanks Aunt Dar, Aunt Nita, MiKael and LG!!

Above Mom's desk at work! How funny!

The beautiful boquets Aunt Dar and Aunt Nita sent Mom at work!

Mom's present she can't have til Friday night.....sorry Mom ;)

We also had 2 more special birthday's on the 20th of October! First off it was my dog Biscuits 1st birthday! Nathan and I went and bought her a new hot pink/camo collar! The hot pink for me and the camo for her daddy! She also got a big bag of treats and a flea collar....although I don't think you would count the flea collar as a present! LOL! The other special birthday was my favorite girl Lily Grace's!!! She turned 4 years old!! It makes me so sad that she is growing up soooo fast!! I love that little girl!! We are having her birthday party on Sunday afternoon after church! First we are starting off at Aunt Dar's house for lunch with the family and then heading on over to Fun City for some fun with LG! Love you Lily Grace!! Happy Birthday!

Lily Grace's birthday present.....wonder what it could be :)

Well that is about it for now! By the way....I am soooo thankful that tomorrow is Friday!! TGIF!!

See ya!

Mrs. Avey :)

Babies, Fried Apple Pies and Honeymoons!

Well get ready to be overwhelmed! HAHA! I Haven't blogged in sooo long and have so much to tell you all! First of all I will start with my friend Christin!! She finally had baby Parson! He was an absolutely beautiful baby and so healthy! He weighed 6 lbs. 13 oz. and was 2o in. long. I felt so honored because right after she had him and they were ready for visitors, the only person she asked for was me! I felt so special! I just love Christin and baby Parson....and I guess Daddy DK is alright! LOL! They have been some of mine and Nate's good friends since we first started dating and we just love them! Christin and I have been friends since 8th grade and it just so happens that our husbands love each other too! I wish them and Parson the best of luck!

Exhausted momma with her new, sweet baby boy!


"Aunt" Chrissy with Baby Parson! I just love him!

Me and Ash posing with Parson....he is such a stud already!

Proud Grandma and her little man!

Me, Ash and Christin!

Baby Parson in the nursery

Well a few days ago my mom and I decided to go to Hobby Lobby.....in case you didn't know, this is one of my top 5 favorite stores! LOL! Anyway, my guest bedrooom is going to be done in blacks, whites, and reds....not a huge fan of red but we had so much red stuff already it just worked! LOL! So many of you know that Hobby Lobby runs everything in their store half price at some point and this particular week it happened to include lamps! Well I found 2 that I fell in love with! One for the bedside table and one for my desk that is a disater right now in the guest room....AKA Dalton's bedroom! HAHA! (Dalton is my brother and has claimed this room already) So I had one in the cart to buy and my mom decided that she wanted to buy the other one for me! What a great mom huh? So I ended up with my 2 lamps and boy are they cute! See pics below!


The ADORABLE desk lamp my mom bought me!! It is super bedazzled and I love it! Shes a great mom!

The lamp that I bought for the bedside table! I just love stuff that is very different and unique!

I hear lamps will be on sale again at Hobby Lobby again soon and I am needing some for my living room next....maybe my Mom will go with me again ;) LOL!


2 weekends ago we decided to have a get-together at my Memaw's house to learn how to make her famous fried apple pies! Let me tell you, these are not just any fried apple pies! They litterally melt in your mouth! For each of our birthdays, Memaw makes us a big plate of them to take home and we get to call everyone else in the family and rub it in to them that we just got some of Memaw's fried apple pies! They are WONDERFUL! And now I know how to make them!!......not as good as Memaw of course but hey, shes had 50 years of practice now! Maybe someday I will master it.....but probably not anytime soon! LOL!

Had to throw this pic in! Its my cousin MiKael's daughter Lily Grace...I just love her so much!

We also learned how to can apples! That was super exciting to me seeing that apples are my absolute favorite!


Right after the apples are cut up...we put them in a big pot on the stove to simmer for a while!

The final product! It pretty much looks like applesauce! Yum!!!

And Waa Laa!! Canned apples! :)

Me helping Memaw prepare the apples for the fried apple pies!

YAY!!!! I did it! 1 pie down!

MiKael's turn!

Ta-da!

Shelley's Jo's turn now!

Good job Shelley!

I didn't get any of Mom making her's but here's her finished product! What a cute pic :)

And here our hard work paid off! Jars of canned apples and plates of fried apple pies! Doesn't get much better than that!!

The next pictures are from Mine and Nate's honeymoon in Daytona Beach, FL!!! I could honestly become a professional beach bum!! It was absolutely the most amazing trip I have ever been on and I wish I could go back tomorrow! Nathan and I had a blast just being the 2 of us, away for an entire week with nothing to worry about! We both had the best time ever and are so thankful for being able to take this trip!

Me at gator golf! They literally have a gator goft course every 1/4 a mile down there!

A sign that was posted at the zoo...too funny!

At the zoo..going into the nasty herpatarium! Yuck!

Right before boogie-boarding!!

Nate and I on the beach.....I can't get enough of the beach!! :)

The view from the back of our condo! It was georgeous!!

Feet view with the ocean behind them!

Nate boogie-boarding! We had so much fun doing this!!

Nate and I at Bubba Gump! Yumm!!

The store that saved Nathan's life! I heard about Bass Pro everyday until we found one! And of course Nathan HAD to have a picture of it!

One of the weird birds we saw in Florida...it was so funny!

Well thats all I have for now! Hopefully within the next couple of days I will get some pictures on here of my new fall decor! Not that I have a lot but i just love fall....not as much and Christmas...LOL....but i do have a few cute decorations up! Hope everyone has a FANTASTIC week!!

See ya!!

Mrs. Avey :)

Hi there!! Its me...Mrs. Avey!!

Well we are officially MARRIED!! YAY!!! Its about stinkin time! LOL! I do have to say, married life is great! Not that I am a professional or anything...I mean come on, its only been 12 days! HA! But we are so glad that its over and we can finally be married! We got back from Daytona on Saturday afternoon and let me tell you, it was SOO hard to come home. I really could become a professional beach bum! I have tons of pics but am on Nate's computer and it does not have the attachment for me to plug my memory stick in and download them so I guess ya'll will just have to wait a little bit longer! Our wedding was absolutely fabulous and we have the best families and friends ever! They worked so hard to make our dream come true and it was perfect! As was the honeymoon!

Well tonight I made Nate dinner and then cleaned house. It was actually pretty fun....but thats just the newness I am sure! I am not even doubting that before long I won't get off the couch so eagerly to wash dishes! LOL! Also, today after work I went to the Social Security office to get my name offically changed! Tonight at midnight I will officially be Christina Mae Avey! Not that I wasn't already....its just now, everyone else knows it too!

This weekend we have no major plans except for hanging out with our friends Courtney and Justin at some point because I miss them and then probably just hanging out around the house the rest of the weekend. We still have a lot to get settled in and I still have tons of pictures to hang! I hate not having pictures on the walls! Pictures always make your house looks so much nicer! Oh yea, and Saturday morning my Mom, me, my cousin Shelley and my cousin MiKael are going to my Memaw's to learn how to make her famous fried apple pies and how to can apples!!! YAY!! I have been waiting to do this for SOOO long and finally we all find a time we can do it! I will definetly have pics to post on that!

Monday morning at 6 AM they are inducing one of my good friends, Christin! We are going to have a baby Parson sometime Monday! YAY! I am going to be an "aunt" Chrissy! We are all so very excited for them and cannot wait to meet their sweet bundle of joy!

Next Thursday we are meeting with my photographer to see pics from the wedding!!! YAY!! I don't know that I will be able to contain myself all next week! We really do have wonderful photographers and I can't wait to see what pictures they took of our special day!

Well I guess that is it til next time! I will be posting pics soon so stay tuned!

See ya!!
Chrissy Avey :)

One week :)

Well its 4:19 right now and I am thinking to myself, in exactly 1 week I will be getting ready to walk down the aisle and marry the person I am going to spend the rest of my life with!! WOW! I am getting so anxious, nervous, excited, giddy!! I am just so excited to FINALLY be married to Nathan and know that forever and ever he is always going to be there to support me and take care of me and just love me not matter what! I sure do love you Nate :)

Hey All!

It has been busy busy busy around here to say the least! We are now OFFICIALLY under 2 weeks until the wedding!! AHHHH!!! I am getting so stinkin excited to say the least! This weekend, even though I had a million things to do Nathan and I decided to go over to Tulsa for the day and spend some time with my cousin Amanda! I just love that girl! She was in the hospital all last week and I just figured she could use some time out of the house with her favorite cousin Chrissy! We had a blast! We are now back home and THANK GOODNESS for the 3 day weekend! I am so thankful for no work on Monday! I have a laundry list of things that I have to accomplish before going back to work on Tuesday. Honestly, things are really going pretty smooth right now (knock on wood lol)! My mom bought her dress for the wedding last week....it is PERFECT! She is going to be absolutely beautiful! I can't wait for everyone to see her in it. There is just so much going on right now I don't even know where to begin! We went out Friday night with all of the girls for my Bachelorette party! It was super fun! All 14 of us went out to ShoGun for dinner which was a blast! Then after that we went to go see All About Steve (not too impressed) and then finally we ended up at Mine and Nate's soon to be house and stayed the night! It was a blast! I kicked Nate out for the night and he came and stayed with his parents so me and some of the girls could have it to ourselves! It was so much fun! I will post pics once my BFF sends them to me! Well I will post more in the next couple of days I am sure! Hope everyone has a great, safe holiday and enjoys their time off!

Love-
Chrissy!